544 CORNACER. [ Marlea, 
coloured, rather large, very shortly pedicelled, in small, grey- 
tomentose cymes at the end of the branches or from the axils of 
the leaves ; calyx Spee shorter than deep, about a line long, 
densely greyish or tawny-greyish tomentose ; petals 6, more than 
4 in. long, linear, pubescent 3 style glabrous ; filaments sparingly 
pilose at the base o 
Sa ae. .—Tropical forests of the Andamans.—Fl. Apr. — Les 
etc. 
MARLEA, Roxb. 
Flowers hermaphrodite ; bashed tube aeteis age or almost pool 
drical, the limb cupular, minutely 4-8-toothed. tals 4-8, free, 
or at the base cohering dae a tube, linear. Sate ns as many 
as petals; filaments free or their base adhering to the petals ; 
anthers narrow-linear, adnate, eer: laterally. Disk cupular or 
cushion-like. Ovary 1-3-celled, or 1-celled at the top and 3-celled 
below, the ovules solitary and Loripedt 3 style slender, with an 
entire or lobed stigma. Drupe small, containing a small 1-2-celled 
and -seeded putamen. Albumen fleshy. —Trees or shrubs, with 
alternate, simple, or lobed leaves. Flowers in axillary, simple, or 
dichotomous cymes ; pedicels join 
~ 
Petals about a an in. long or shorter ; connective glabrous; leaves 
glabro . M. begoniafolia. 
Petals Sealy an inch tong connective pilose ‘and bearded ; leaves 
se rulous beneat . KL, tomentosa. 
. M. bego: nisfolia, ak; Brand. For. Fl. 251.—An ever- 
ae tree (60-70 + 30—-40-4 4,—5), the young shoots tawny-pubes- 
cent ; ros from broadly and obliquely ovate-oblong to ovate, on 
a 1-1 ong, soon glabrescent petiole, acuminate, simple, or 
Sapte iabed: or often produced into 1-4 short acuminate lobes, 
ee, 4-6 in. long, 3-5-nerved at the base, glabrous, or with 
a tuft of hairs in the nerve-axils beneath, the principal nerves often 
punarewen? 4 Tionets tathie? small, on short ae thick minutely 
bracted jointed pedicels, forming a glabrous or puberulous, peduncled 
dichotomous cyme in the axils of the leaves and shorter than them ; 
calyx glabrous or pubescent, short; petals 6-8, narrow-linear 
—— outside, about 4 in. long or somewhat shorter ; filaments 
: road, tawny hirsute; anthers and connective quite 
_glabros ; style glabrous or Sppresscd hirsute with a coherent 4- 
oS stigma; disk —- ; drupes ovoid, the size of a small 
coro | y the minute ca ae es ‘containing a 2-celled 
D 
.—Rare in the ical forests of Martaban; Ava, Kakhyen hills.—Fl. 
1-May.— 188 Metam, © oe 
